Unalive

Unalive

Skip · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 29, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
0.8h
Value
$6.24/hr
Reviews
72% of 384 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 71% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$6.24/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 205 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities. Kill bosses and stay alive. You have only one chance!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1004 MB of memory, 500MB. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 63 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 84 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Legend of Dungeon ($9.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Killing Room ($14.99, scores 24).

More about Unalive

None of the 205 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to June 2026.

The drop-off

2% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Fun game and I enjoyed my time with it. It's not something I'd necessarily rush out and pay full price for, but there's definitely enough here to have a good time. Grab it on sale and give it a shot.
SteveHybridRecommendedafter 87h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Unalive scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/574640/unalive
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRandomSpin
Publisher RandomSpin
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7